Pocket-holder.



LW. PERRY & G. A. HUDSON.

POCKET HOLDER.

APPLICATION HLED MAR.1.1917.

Patented "Ma-y T, 1918 mglo?.

UNITED STATES. PATENT OFFICE EDWARD WALTER PERRY AND- GEORGE ALBERTfHUDsoN, or NEPAWA, MANrroBA,

' CANADA.

POCKET-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 7, 1918;

To all whom# may concern:

Be 1t known that we EDWARD WALTER PERRY and GEORGE ALBERT HUDSON, of theA town of N eepawa, inthe Province of Manitoba, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in PocketHold ers, of which the following is the specification.v

The invention relates to improvements in a device for insertion in the pocket tov hold pens, pencils and the like from escaping44 from. the pocket andthe objects of the in vention are to provide a holder which will hold firmly a plurality of pens Or pen-cils.

placed -in the pocket and regardless of Whether they are of varying diameters or varying lengths.' f

A further object is to construct the holder so that it can be manufactured at small cost and durable and eii'ective and will not harm the pocket.

A still further andimportant object of the invention is to provide a holder having an exposed tab or tongue adapted for the displaying of advertising or similar material.

With the above, objects in viefw the invention consists essentially iin a holderconr prising connected front and back plates, the back plate being corrugated lengthwise to provide separated expansible and contraotible receiving pockets and a displaytongue or tabextending from the. top edge'` described and later pointed out in the appended claim` reference being had to the.

accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 represents a front view of the device as it appears in t-he pocket of a waistcoat. p

Fig. 2 represents an enlarged frontvview of the appliance withdrawn from the pocket. Fig. 3 represents arear. view of the appliance.

Fig. 4 represents a horizontal sectional view through it, the section being taken' in i the planedenoted by the liue X-X Fig. 3L `Fig. 5 represents a vertical sectional View through the holder, the section being taken .in the 4plane denoted by the line Y-fYf 1 4. y y .K -Sfn the drawing like "characters of refer' ence indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

l represents the holder which is formed in the present instance from a single sheet of metal cut Vand bent in a special way to provide a front 2, 4. The front and back are continuous at the side 5 while they are fastened together at the side 5 by free edge of the back-plate over the free edge of the front plate as indicated at 6.

The tab' d iseontinuous with the front plate being actually a turned down spring like extension of the front plate, there being clearance Vspace indicated at 7 reserved between the bod)y of the tab and the front plate to admit of the insertion of thenpocket front. i

The front plate is liat and has the lower end thereof tapered as shown` at 4S to allow of easy insertion within thepocket and the rear plate is formed with a plurality of vertically disposed corrugations il which form. with the front plate. pockets l() for the re ception ot' pencils. pens or suchlike.

These corrugations can be all similar or the)y can be large and `small as desired. .ln

the drawing I have shown one corrugation El la rgcr than the other. this being specially adapted for receiving the body of a fountain pen, which in the present instance is considered larger than a pencil shown at 11'. It is to be noticed that the corrugations are spaced from the front plate so that the back of the holder really presents a plu ralit)v of spring likcpockcts ior the articles inserted. that is to say. thc metal of tlie back plate can spring away from the front plate to accommodate slight fluctuations in the sizes of pencils. .'\ccordingly the holder will catch firmly apluralit)7 of pencils put in it.aud will hold them all, even where they vary slightly in diameter. It will also catchthe pencils ccm-ely whether they .be

long or short. rl`hc tab or tongue i presents a fiat surface which, when the holder is insertcd in the pocket indicatedgnt 12, isfully `of the tab and held in position by a marginallange lformed on the tongue.

The latter arrangement allows of the Qdfolding and squeezing theA 

